Twenty-two years ago, I started reading a biography of Sam Peckinpah. The author argued that there was a point at which Peckinpah went from being a hack to someone who made TV shows like they were movies. That moment was in this episode. The camera focuses on a bottle of hooch being tied with a string, and hoisted form the street to a roof.

Having seen some of Peckinpah’s earlier work on the series The Rifleman, which he’d also created, and his two previous episodes of The Westerner, I think the author’s judgment was unnecessarily severe. This episode is extraordinary, compared to other TV Westerns, but not for Peckinpah, and certainly not for The Westerner, a uniquely brilliant series, from what I’ve so far seen. The show starred Brian Keith as itinerant cowboy Dave Blassingame. Keith wasn’t much to look at, and played with the greatest restraint, and as a result, he was one of the most underrated actors of his generation, but he never wanted for work.

This episode introduces the character of Burgundy Smith, a scoundrel played by John Dehner, who was a hugely successful ham on TV. He wasn’t a better actor than Brian Keith, but Hollywood loves a ham. The chemistry between the two is as splendid as the contrast between the understated Keith and the over-the-top Dehner.

“Brown” has one of the longest, funniest fight scenes you’ll ever see, and the most unique in its motivation.

Peckinpah wrote three episodes in which he paired Dehner and Keith as friends, enemies, rivals, you name it, and between the affection he held for the characters, and the storyteller’s (like the composer’s) habit of “cannibalizing” material, he updated it in a legendary teleplay set in the present on the anthology series, The Dick Powell Theatre, The Losers, starring Lee Marvin and Keenan Wynn as the same characters! That teleplay aired on January 15, 1963, when Lee Marvin was just about the world’s hottest actor, and was appearing constantly on the small and big screen.

It’s beginning to look as if the Democratic Party can’t whip African-Americans into an anti-white frenzy to turn out on Election Day, and then say, “OK, thanks, guys! That’s all we need.”

How else do liberals explain the upsurge in racial unrest since Obama became president? Why would white racism—their view—latent for the previous 15 years, burst forth meteorically just as the country elected its first black president?

Did we elect this bumbling incompetent, then suddenly remember that we’re racists?

I have an explanation! It’s subtly alluded to in the title of my book, Mugged: Racial Demagoguery from the Seventies to Obama. What’s theirs?

Wednesday, April 29, 2015

This is apparently The Atlantic's pathetic attempt to turn this into a "Tiananmen Square" moment. I heard someone talkng like this on a comment thread the other day, and said that it made no sense.

Re-posted by Nicholas Stix

Nonviolence as Compliance
Officials calling for calm can offer no rational justification for Gray's death, and so they appeal for order.
By Ta-Nehisi Coates
April 27, 2015The Atlantic

Rioting broke out on Monday in Baltimore—an angry response to the death of Freddie Gray, a death my native city seems powerless to explain. Gray did not die mysteriously in some back alley but in the custody of the city's publicly appointed guardians of order. And yet the mayor of that city and the commissioner of that city's police still have no idea what happened. I suspect this is not because the mayor and police commissioner are bad people, but because the state of Maryland prioritizes the protection of police officers charged with abuse over the citizens who fall under its purview.

The citizens who live in West Baltimore, where the rioting began, intuitively understand this. I grew up across the street from Mondawmin Mall, where today's riots began. My mother was raised in the same housing project, Gilmor Homes, where Freddie Gray was killed. Everyone I knew who lived in that world regarded the police not with admiration and respect but with fear and caution. People write these feelings off as wholly irrational at their own peril, or their own leisure. The case against the Baltimore police, and the society that superintends them, is easily made:

Over the past four years, more than 100 people have won court judgments or settlements related to allegations of brutality and civil rights violations. Victims include a 15-year-old boy riding a dirt bike, a 26-year-old pregnant accountant who had witnessed a beating, a 50-year-old woman selling church raffle tickets, a 65-year-old church deacon rolling a cigarette and an 87-year-old grandmother aiding her wounded grandson ....

And in almost every case, prosecutors or judges dismissed the charges against the victims—if charges were filed at all. In an incident that drew headlines recently, charges against a South Baltimore man were dropped after a video showed an officer repeatedly punching him—a beating that led the police commissioner to say he was “shocked.”

The money paid out by the city to cover for the brutal acts of its police department would be enough to build "a state-of-the-art rec center or renovations at more than 30 playgrounds." Instead, the money was used to cover for the brutal acts of the city's police department and ensure they remained well beyond any semblance of justice.

Now, tonight, I turn on the news and I see politicians calling for young people in Baltimore to remain peaceful and "nonviolent." These well-intended pleas strike me as the right answer to the wrong question.

To understand the question, it's worth remembering what, specifically, happened to Freddie Gray. An officer made eye contact with Gray. Gray, for unknown reasons, ran. The officer and his colleagues then detained Gray. They found him in possession of a switchblade. They arrested him while he yelled in pain. And then, within an hour, his spine was mostly severed. A week later, he was dead. What specifically was the crime here? What particular threat did Freddie Gray pose? Why is mere eye contact and then running worthy of detention at the hands of the state? Why is Freddie Gray dead?

When nonviolence begins halfway through the war with the aggressor calling time out, it exposes itself as a ruse.

The people now calling for nonviolence are not prepared to answer these questions. Many of them are charged with enforcing the very policies that led to Gray's death, and yet they can offer no rational justification for Gray's death and so they appeal for calm. But there was no official appeal for calm when Gray was being arrested. There was no appeal for calm when Jerriel Lyles was assaulted. (“The blow was so heavy. My eyes swelled up. Blood was dripping down my nose and out my eye.”) There was no claim for nonviolence on behalf of Venus Green. (“Bitch, you ain’t no better than any of the other old black bitches I have locked up.”) There was no plea for peace on behalf of Starr Brown. (“They slammed me down on my face,” Brown added, her voice cracking. “The skin was gone on my face.")

When nonviolence is preached as an attempt to evade the repercussions of political brutality, it betrays itself. When nonviolence begins halfway through the war with the aggressor calling time out, it exposes itself as a ruse. When nonviolence is preached by the representatives of the state, while the state doles out heaps of violence to its citizens, it reveals itself to be a con. And none of this can mean that rioting or violence is "correct" or "wise," any more than a forest fire can be "correct" or "wise." Wisdom isn't the point tonight. Disrespect is. In this case, disrespect for the hollow law and failed order that so regularly disrespects the community.

The following report is from a source I had never heard of before today. Thus, although it claims that its report is “confirmed,” it isn’t confirmed in my book. And yet, the report is too explosive to ignore.

If you saw the video of Gray’s arrest, he was in extreme pain, when the cops put him in the paddy wagon. That circumstances has been used to condemn the police for not summoning medical help at the scene, in alternation with condemnation for police supposedly killing Gray from the ride in the paddy wagon.

A law enforcement source said that while there is no problem with calling for and waiting on medical help for a white suspect in custody on the street in a white neighborhood, doing the same for a black suspect in custody in a black neighborhood can be extremely dangerous.

CONFIRMED: Court records show Freddie Gray was receiving a structured settlement from Allstate Insurance and attempted to convert it into one lump sum in early March
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EXCLUSIVE: The Fourth Estate has learned that Freddie Gray’s life-ending injuries to his spine may have possibly been the result of spinal and neck surgery that he allegedly received a week before he was arrested, not from rough excessively rough treatment or abuse from police.

The Fourth Estate has contacted sources who allege that Freddie Gray received spinal and neck surgery a week before we was arrested, and was allegedly receiving a large structured settlement from Allstate Insurance. The surgery is allegedly related to a car accident in which Gray was involved.

Sources allege that Gray also attempted to refinance his structured settlement into one lump sum payment through Peachtree Funding.

If this is true, then it is possible that Gray’s spinal injury resulting from his encounter with the Baltimore Police was not the result of rough-handling or abuse, but rather a freak accident that occurred when Gray should have been at home resting, not selling drugs.

The structured settlement from Allstate and Gray’s attempt to convert it into one lump sum payment has been confirmed by Howard County Circuit Court Records

It is reasonable to believe that the injuries Gray suffered after the arrest were not related to the police’s treatment of him at all. Spinal and neck surgery is a large ordeal, and doctors advise weeks of bed rest and taking it easy in order to not rupture the patient’s recently fused spine.

Freddy Gray decided to go out and start selling drugs again instead of healing properly. The police didn’t mistreat him at all; he mistreated himself.

Orioles COO John Angelos has been twitting pc garbage that’s Greek to me, in support of the racist rioters beating his white, paying, law-abiding fans to a pulp, but how long will it be before he packs up and takes the club out of town in the middle of the night?

[Breaking News, posted at 4:45 p.m. ET] Seven Baltimore police officers have suffered major injuries, including one who is unconscious and others with broken bones during clashes with protesters Monday, Capt. Eric Kowalczyk said.
Where is the Maryland National Guard?

N.S.: Mayor Rawlings-Blake doesn't want the Guard, because she's waging war on her own police force. It's her accelerated AA program--kill off and maim as many white cops as possible. Those are her guys attacking the police.

Members of Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake's riot coalition: The Nation of Islam, Crips, and Bloods

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake

By Nicholas Stix

Black Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake orders her own police force to refuse to protect law-abiding white fans being pummeled by black supremacists outside of Camden Yards before last night's game. Later in the night, she imprisons the white fans within the ballpark, while letting the rioters... run riot outside. She is using the black gangs she's ordered the police to protect, to wage war on her own handcuffed police force. Apparently, her accelerated affirmative action plan consists of killing off and maiming as many white cops as possible.

Earlier in the day, the department said it had received a "credible threat" that gangs were teaming up to "take out" officers.

It did not say where the information came from, nor did it say whether the threat was tied to Gray's death. Gray died in police custody under circumstances that remain unclear.

His death has sparked ongoing protests in Baltimore and raised long-simmering tensions between police and residents there.

"The Baltimore Police Department/Criminal Intelligence Unit has received credible information that members of various gangs including the Black Guerilla Family, Bloods, and Crips have entered into a partnership to 'take out' law enforcement officers," police said.

"This is a credible threat. Law enforcement agencies should take appropriate precautions to ensure the safety of their officers," police said.

Over the weekend, a few protesters vandalized police cars, threw objects at officers, cursed at them and scuffled with them.
About a dozen young men smashed squad cars with garbage cans, climbed on top of them and stomped on them, CNN video showed.
Also on Monday, hundreds attended Gray's funeral. The 25-year-old was arrested on April 12, and died one week later from a fatal spinal chord injury.

On Saturday night, a man was shot and killed in Rockaway Park, Queens, on Rockaway Beach Boulevard and Beach 112th Street, at around 8 p.m. My sources are neighborhood workers, who also reported that an NYPD helicopter flew overhead near the crime scene, following the murder. Yellow crime scene tape was up that night at the crime scene.

A Web search turned up no media reports of the killing.

When I lived in Far Rockaway (1994-1997), local workers claimed to me that at least five murders were committed in 1994 and 1996 that somehow never made the news.

In December 1994, or January 1995, a white Cuban taxi driver told me that during one weekend night in December 1994, between ca. 9 p.m. and 3 a.m. along Cornaga and Mott Avenues, which cross, four different people were shot to death, in four separate attacks.

In 1996, a black security guard named William Jackson, who worked in my building on Beach 15th Street, told me of a murder that had recently been committed in a neighboring building.

I have no idea if those stories were true, but I believe the one about Rockaway Beach Boulevard, because it was still “hot,” when the witnesses were talking about it just a few hours later and the next morning.

I know of only two other murders that New York authorities sought to disappear.

However, even that phony number was exceeded the following year, with a new record 1,905 official murders, and that new record was completely shattered in 1990, the first year of the reign of “racial healer,” black socialist David Dinkins. Dinkins’ rule, by far the bloodiest in New York City history, saw the following official numbers for murder: 8,340 in four years, for an annual average of 2,085.

I found the 24-year-old article below when I was looking for material on Bronx Family Court Judge Rhoda Cohen, who was the worst family court judge I ever dealt with as a foster-care caseworker, a lifetime ago. For Judge Cohen, it wasn’t over ‘til the unfit mother won.

Not that I ever saw the good judge. Fortunately, I only had one natural mother from the Bronx at the time. Most of them were from Brooklyn, where I lived, which is why I was assigned Brooklyn cases.

When my natural mother had a court date, she didn’t bother showing up. That was sufficient grounds to terminate her parental rights for the son and daughter in question, but not in Judge Cohen’s court. Instead, she had us wait around a few hours, and then just issued mom a new court date. And since it was at least a three-hour round trip to Bronx Family Court, plus waiting time, Judge Cohen wasted an entire day of my precious work time.

Another reason this article is significant to me is that it shows not the police, but a judge “disappearing” a murder.

I have reported, time and again, on police agencies’ routine fraud in compiling crime statistics, but notwithstanding mid-1990s’ rumors of several murders in Far Rockaway, where I was then living, I have rarely managed to find reports of “disappeared” murders. However, I am convinced that many murders have been disappeared in this fashion, as part of the revolutionary dip in crime.

You don’t hide the body, you hide the cause of death, or the report, and thus the stat. Or you hide the report. Murders become suicides, accidental deaths, deaths by natural causes (e.g., drowning), or get lost or stolen. In early 1996, Newsday reporter Leonard Levitt learned of a murder that the NYPD had covered up. Once the killing was exposed, the brass asserted that a reporter had stolen all the police reports of the murder from the press room.

[Postscript, April 27, 2015: I contacted Levitt last year, to ask him about that report, in order to find the name of the murder victim, but he could no longer remember the story.]

Note, too, that after the authorities did a preliminary count of the dead (who were determined to be white way out of the expected proportion) following Katrina, they never revised it.

I would appreciate readers sending in any reports where the deceased, who were initially reported to have not been murdered, were later discovered to have been murdered.

As for the following story, I checked the New York Times’ archives under both “Christopher Marchiselli” and “April Marchiselli,” and came up with nothing. Longtime Democratic Bronx DA Mario Merola had died in office, after 15 years, of a cerebral hemorrhage, and under his interim replacement, Paul T. Gentile, the office devolved into chaotic infighting, dissuading Gentile from seeking election.

A black, lefty, low-level city judge, Robert Johnson, was delivered the office on an affirmative action platter by the supposedly rival Liberal and Republican parties, and when he polled only 39 percent in the Democratic primary, he was still the party’s standard-bearer, since the next-highest polling candidate received only 28 percent of primary ballots cast. (The New York City primary system for local offices has since been reformed, and in a primary in which no one polls the majority of votes, there must be a run-off between the two top candidates.)

Johnson became Bronx DA on January 1, 1989, and has controlled the office ever since. It looks like he wasn’t interested in making his ally, Rhoda Cohen look bad, of riling feminist voters, or of “increasing” the number of murders in the Bronx in 1988.

I’ll see if I can find out more about this case, but it won’t be easy.

A Manhattan appeals court has overturned a Family Court ruling and found a Bronx mother guilty of abuse in the death of her 19-month-old son, who was found scalded and drowned in a bathtub. The appeals court also ruled that her 5-year-old son should be removed from her custody.

Testimony in the case showed that the dead infant, Christopher Marchiselli, had second- and third-degree burns over as much as 65 percent of his body. It also showed that he had fluid in his lungs when he was admitted to Our Lady of Mercy Hospital on Sept. 11, 1986. He died a day later.

The infant's mother, April Marchiselli, a 25-year-old waitress, testified that she had left the boy and his 5-year-old half-brother, James, in a bathtub with running water. She said the water turned scalding hot and Christopher fell face down in the water.

Two physicians, Dr. Rea Herrera and Dr. Daniel Kessler, testified that the pattern of the burns on Christopher were inconsistent with Mrs. Marchiselli's story. They said they believed that the baby had been immersed from the chest down for a few seconds in scalding water.

Both doctors concluded that Christopher could not have accidentally assumed the position that had caused his injuries. They also observed in their testimony that James did not have the strength to immerse the baby and then pull him out again.

In its decision Thursday, the four-judge panel of the Appellate Division of State Supreme Court in Manhattan found that ''the only possibility presented by the medical evidence was the presence of an adult 'outside agent.' ''

The panel also found Ms. Marchiselli's account of what happened to be ''inconsistent'' and that it ''fluctuated wildly.''

The appeals judges said they found it ''puzzling in light of the unrefuted medical evidence and the inconsistencies in the mother's stories'' that a lower court judge had found the dotors' [sic; probably a scanning-caused typo] testimony ''mere speculation'' and Ms. Marchiselli's account credible. The lower court judge, Rhoda Cohen of Bronx Family Court, ruled on Aug. 31, that Ms. Marchiselli was guilty of neglect.

The appeals judges reversed the lower court finding and found Ms. Marchiselli guilty of abuse. They sent the case back to Family Court for disposition of James's future care, according to Lenore Gittis, a lawyer for the Legal Aid Society and James's court-appointed law guardian.

Ms. Gittis, who filed the appeal, said it was up to the Bronx District Attorney's office to determine whether the law-enforcement authorities should further investigate Christopher's death. Efforts to obtain comment last night from the Bronx District Attorney's office were not successful.

Following what originated as a large but mostly peaceful protest over the death of Freddie Gray, dozens of protesters continued on a separate riot. They used bricks from the ground as well as other heavy objects such as benches to break through glass buildings. In some cases, they simply wanted to cause damage to cars and other objects; in others, they entered and stole items ranging from phones to soda and chips.Victims in the video included a McDonalds and a 7-Eleven.

“Isabelle, who has a juvenile record that includes a conviction on misdemeanor theft, signed a written confession police said.”

ABC is covering up for him. “That includes” means there were other offenses, which I am sure were more violent than “misdemeanor theft,” which itself would have been plea-bargained down from something like felony robbery.

Note, too, that the news readers speaks of “his alleged victim,” while reporting that Isabelle signed a confession, and that the victim had to be hospitalized overnight with a concussion. Not “alleged”; just his victim! This is surely in response to pressure since last summer from the Friends of Black Felons.

This is one case where the apple fell far from the tree. So often today, young felons’ mothers lie for them (Trayvon Martin, Mike Brown, et al.), but this felon’s mom wasn’t having any of that. While I of course feel sorry for the victim, I also feel sorry for the perp’s mom, which I rarely do, these days.

Deshawn Isabelle, 15, is charged as an adult in connection with a robbery and sexual assault on a CTA Blue Line train. He is being held on a $1 million bond.

In court Thursday, prosecutors said Isabelle's mother recognized him from surveillance photos and took him to the police station to turn himself in.

In court Thursday, prosecutors said surveillance video from the CTA Blue Line train shows Isabelle grabbing the 41-year-old woman from behind, sexually assaulting her and robbing her around 3 p.m. Monday on a CTA Blue Line train near the Oak Park stop.

"The defendant continued to punch victim repeatedly about her head, face and body. Defenden repeatedly kicked victim and stomped on her while making monetary demands of the victim," Joe DiBella, assistant state's attorney, said.

The defendant allegedly stuck his hands inside the woman's jeans and penetrated her sexually, prompting the sexual assault charge. The two were the only passengers in that train car, prosecutors said, and the offender is seen exiting at Cicero.

He took the woman's iPhone, prosecutors said, and $2,000 in cash the victim was going to wire to her family in Thailand.

"Defendant indicated he used the money he took to spend on junk food, his high school graduation costs, and Air Jordan jumpsuits," DiBella said.

Isabelle, who has a juvenile record that includes a conviction on misdemeanor theft, signed a written confession police said.

The victim was hospitalized overnight with a concussion, official said.

New IRS emails released by the House Oversight Committee show staff working for Democratic Ranking Member Elijah Cummings communicated with the IRS multiple times between 2012 and 2013 about voter fraud prevention group True the Vote. True the Vote was targeted by the IRS after applying for tax exempt status more than two years ago. Further, information shows the IRS and Cummings' staff asked for nearly identical information from True the Vote President Catherine Engelbrecht about her organization, indicating coordination and improper sharing of confidential taxpayer information.

Robert “Fighting Bob” LaFollette Sr., the progressive father of “the Wisconsin Idea”

Perpetually scowling, violent, black supremacist Milwaukee Alderman Michael McGee Jr. embodies the black destruction of the Wisconsin Idea. McGee once threatened to burn Milwaukee down, if the city government did not submit to his impossible demands, and was later convicted and imprisoned for taking bribes.

University of Tennessee wide receiver Von Pearson has been named as a suspect in a gang-rape.

This makes three Tennessee footballers either charged or suspected of rape. Is this part of the NY Times’ “rape
Culture”?

N.S.: Note how careful WBIR is about referring to the vic as "the alleged victim." Even after Jackie Coakley had been exposed as the UVA rape hoaxer for accusing non-existent white men of gang-raping her, MSM "reporters" continued referring to her as the "victim," when the real victims were the men of the fraternity she'd defamed, Phi Kappa Psi.

UT wide receiver Von Pearson has been suspended from all team activities while police investigate a rape allegation. The female said the attack occurred at an off-campus apartment. April 24, 2015 WBIRVols wide receiver suspended amid rape investigation
11:23 p.m. EDT April 24, 2015WBIR

(WBIR) - University of Tennessee wide receiver Von Pearson been suspended indefinitely from all team activities amid a rape investigation, according to UT athletic officials.

Pearson, 23, was identified early Friday as a rape suspect, according to Knoxville Police Department Deputy Chief Gary Holliday.
Pearson has not been charged. The announcement comes one day before UT's annual Orange and White Game at Neyland Stadium.

The rape is alleged to have occurred between 3 a.m. and 4 a.m. at University Walk Apartments, 2308 Forest Ave., according to a KPD report. A UTPD report notes alcohol was involved and was "group/gang involved."

The Tennessean reports that University of Tennessee police were first to respond, speaking with the alleged victim at UT's Hodges Library, according to a University of Tennessee Police report.

At the library, the alleged victim indicated that a sexual assault had occurred off campus. She was transferred to University of Tennessee Medical Center for evaluation. The case was then turned over to Knoxville police.

KPD was notified about 6 a.m., with a KPD investigator responding to the hospital.

"During the initial investigation, KPD investigators took statements from the victim, several witnesses, and alerted the Sexual Assault Center. This investigation is in the early stages and is ongoing," according to Holliday.

Six people are listed as witnesses in an incident report including two UT football players.

Pearson is a senior from Newport News, Va. He transferred from Feather River College in Quincy, Calif.

According to the University of Tennessee Athletic Department, in his first year with the Vols last fall Pearson played in 11 games, starting in eight of them. He made 38 catches for 393 yards.

A former Vol and suspended Vol are awaiting prosecution for an alleged rape.

Former Vols A.J. Johnson and Michael Williams are charged in Knox County Criminal Court on a four-count rape indictment for an incident alleged to have happened at Johnson's South Knoxville apartment.

“Attorneys for NFL linebacker Dwight Freeney (pictured) announced the filing of the lawsuit against Bank of America in downtown L.A. (CBS)”

Re-posted by Nicholas Stix

This is potentially gigantic, because it exposes sordid goings-on at one of the world's biggest banks, which civilians like me and the other readers here would never be privy to. I'm sure Dwight Freeney, 35, thought he was playing it safe and conservative with his investment portfolio.

Freeney, whose salad days were with the Peytion Manning-led Baltimore Indianapolis Colts, is a seven-time Pro Bowler, three-time All-Pro, with a Super Bowl ring, who is a serious contender for the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio.

Apparently, even megabanks like BofA, handling trillions of dollars, are eliminating full-time positions, including people handling accounts in the tens of millions of dollars, and filling them with unscrupulous, unvetted part-timers, likely as “contractors” with no benefits. (And then the banks seek to use their own unscrupulousness as an out from having to pay the piper: ‘They weren’t our employees, so we’re not responsible!’ Did BofA inform Freeney of this state of affairs in advance? To ask the question is to answer it.) I can’t imagine how anything could have gone wrong with that strategy!

There’s a concept in Anglo-American law that is as old as investing, called “fiduciary responsibility.” BofA is apparently implying, “Since we were unethical in putting together Mr. Freeney’s team in the first place, we can’t be held to ethical standards in the way things went wrong.”

I can't see BofA letting this go to trial (though I wish it would!), because discovery would be a b---h, and would lead to the next year's blockbuster bestseller, and the blockbuster movie of the year after that.

I think BofA will seek to sandbag Freeney, drag this out, and eventually settle for about $5 million, plus his lawyers' fees. Look for more such lawsuits, and internal reform in the way big banks handle customers' investment portfolios.

This looks like a case of a star athlete who did things the right way, and still ended up broke. I thought only little guys like me got treated this-a-way!

LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — One of the NFL’s highest-paid defensive players announced a lawsuit Tuesday alleging Bank of America “aided and abetted” a fraud scheme that cost him $20 million.

Attorneys for Dwight Freeney, a defensive end and linebacker who last played for the San Diego Chargers met with reporters in downtown Los Angeles to officially announce filing the complaint in Los Angeles Superior Court.

According to the lawsuit (PDF), Freeney authorized BofA in 2010 to manage his assets, including his NFL salary.
In addition to BofA, the complaint names Michael Bock, a senior vice-president of the bank’s Global Wealth & Investment Management unit, as a defendant.

Attorneys say BofA did not disclose to Freeney that Eva Weinberg – who was assigned by BofA to manage Freeney’s business affairs – was only a part-time employee at BofA and was not licensed to give Freeney investment advice.

The complaint also alleges BofA, Bock and Weinberg also lied to Freeney about the true identity of Michael Stern, who was brought onto Freeney’s BofA financial team.

According to attorneys, Stern was introduced to Freeney as “Michael Millar”, [sic] a successful Miami Beach businessman, but who was allegedly linked to failed real estate ventures and allegations of bribing Miami city officials.

Once Weinberg and Stern gained control of Freeney’s finances, they “promptly went about stealing at least $8.5 million,” according to the complaint.

“BofA’s deceitfulness is at the heart of our lawsuit,” said attorney Jeffrey Isaacs. “BofA kept Dwight completely in the dark about the qualifications and the backgrounds of the people managing his money.”

A statement from BofA spokesman Bill Halldin denied the bank played any role in the alleged scheme.

“The two people responsible for this wrongdoing have already been convicted,” Halldin said. “The primary wrongdoer never worked for the bank or any of its affiliates and the other person committed her criminal conduct after she left Merrill Lynch in 2010.”

Freeney, who has the 20th best record in NFL history for sacking quarterbacks, earned a Super Bowl ring in 2007, and played in three AFC championship games, has played for the Chargers for the last two seasons. He is currently an unrestricted free agent.

The news on Wednesday was very bad. With the confirmation of Attorney General Loretta Lynch, despite her explicit support for President Obama’s Executive Amnesty, the last chance of stopping this unconstitutional coup through congressional action has been lost.

The disgrace of the GOP Congressional Leadership is now complete. Indeed, TEN Republicans, including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky), voted for Lynch—raising real doubts as to whether they ever really intended to oppose Obama at all.

When the Central American “unaccompanied children” farce began last summer (it appears to be starting up again now), VDARE.com was among the first to argue Obama’s Border Dissolution Is Treason. The Answer Is Impeachment. It Would Work. (July 6, 2014).

And impeachment did enjoy a few minutes of fame. But it was hurried aside amid assurances that there were other, more “moderate,” less “risky,” solutions.

These are now utterly discredited and Obama has apparently escaped unscathed.

Only one brave judge currently stands between America and Amnesty. And, given the politicization of the courts, who knows for how long?

Of course, there are still solutions to the current mess. VDARE.com will, of course, continue to emphasize the efficacy and practicality of an immigration moratorium, the ending of birthright citizenship, attrition through enforcement, strategic deportation etc. etc.

And it’s still entirely possible that these solutions could be adopted. That is the significance of the fact that, for the first time, a major Presidential contender—Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin—has just questioned the impact of out-of-control LEGAL immigration on Americans’ employment and incomes.

But, as Editor of VDARE.com, I’m also going increasingly to focus on Plan B—how Americans can salvage enough from the wreck of their great Republic to protect themselves, their families and, ultimately, the historic American nation. A renewed defense of Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Association will be just the beginning.

“We have operating trains down there. There are passengers waiting for the train ... it’s horrendous.”

The video, which was time-stamped around 3:15 p.m., shows about a dozen teenagers either participating in a one-minute assault on two male students, or cheering it on.

One of the assailants falls onto the subway tracks, pulls himself out and reenters the thrashing. A girl in the crowd tries to film the fight on her phone.

Several of the teen brutes repeatedly stomp a victim’s head as he’s lying on the ground.

The assault begins one minute into a four-minute clip released by SEPTA.

Some of those involved in the attack — including the victims — fled onto a train moments before SEPTA officers rushed to the platform and others appear to have simply walked away. Nobody involved in the attack reported it to police, Nestel said.

The beating begins abruptly as the students wait for a train to arrive.

Initial reports indicate the fight started over a female student and that the victims were followed into the Spring Garden Station and someone signaled for the group to attack them. The victims are obscured behind a subway map in the video when the beatdown begins.

The victims, both from Benjamin Franklin High School, have been identified, but it’s unclear if SEPTA officers have spoken with them or what their condition is, a SEPTA spokesperson told the Daily News. It’s also unclear if all of the students went to the same school.

Police believe several of the assailants went to the same school and the district is trying to identify those responsible, with suspension or expulsion as possible punishments.

After the assault, SEPTA upped its security at 10 stations that typically see steady student traffic.

So, Whitey is guilty in perpetuity of the sins of his great-great-great-great-great-grandfather? And how could it be a sin, since the African slaves were sold into slavery by black African slave traders, as well as Muslim Arab slave traders?

“We have no government armed in power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our Constitution was made only for a religious and moral people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other.”

About Me

I am a dissident journalist, whose work has been published in dozens of daily newspapers, magazines, and journals in English, German, and Swedish, under my own name and many pseudonyms. While living in internal exile in New York, where I am whitelisted, I maintain NSU/The Wyatt Earp Journalism Bureau and some eight other blogs (some are distinctive but occasional venues, while others are mirrors), and also write for stout-hearted men such as Peter Brimelow and Jared Taylor. Please hit the “Donate” button on your way out. Thanks, in advance.
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